Executive Gun Control - Page 2

An email from WikiLeaks’ Podesta release shows Hillary Clinton’s campaign staff exasperated by President Obama’s rejection of Clinton’s executive gun control plan.

Following the October 13 release of the video in which Senate candidate Russ Feingold (D-Minn.) told James O’Keefe that Hillary Clinton could use executive action to bypass Congress, the Washington Post responded that Clinton’s plans to go it alone on gun

The State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) has issued a letter setting forth more executive gun controls–guidelines for gunsmiths to register with the DDTC and pay fees requisite to that registration.

On June 7, Gun Owners of America (GOA) released a statement alerting Americans that Obama is taking your grandpa’s guns.

Even before Donald Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee on Tuesday, Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton was looking toward the general election and planning to use executive action “go further than Obama” on gun control.

Rank-and-file police officers are already rallying against President Barack Obama’s scheduled push for government purchases of smart guns.

Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton told an April 25 MSNBC town hall she will “tackle the gun lobby” on day one if elected.

On February 29 the Mississippi House passed a measure barring enforcement of new federal gun controls in the state and Governor Phil Bryant (R) quickly urged the Senate to follow suit.

President Barack Obama claimed Feb. 22 that his executive gun controls will prevent people like alleged Kalamazoo gunman Jason Brian Dalton from getting guns.

Numbers recently released by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation suggest that the talk of gun control and President Obama’s actual issuance of executive gun controls contributed to a surge in concealed carry permit applications in that state from November to February.

On Monday President Obama called Kalamazoo area law enforcement and intimated the Saturday shootings that took six lives demonstrate that executive gun control did not go far enough, saying, “We’re going to have to do more to keep Americans safe.”

On February 16, Arizona’s Senate Committee on Federalism, Mandates and Fiscal Responsibility approved legislation to nullify the enforcement of Obama’s executive controls within the state.

On February 9 President Obama released his 2017 budget proposal and it contains “billions for gun control.”

The New York Times (NYT) claimed on February 7 that for all the attention given to President Obama’s unilateral orders to reduce “gun violence,” his executive gun controls are just more talk with little action.

Ohio state representative Nino Vitale (R-Urbana) is pushing legislation to nullify the enforcement of President Obama’s executive gun controls within the state.

On February 4, Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) and Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID) introduced legislation to shield Social Security beneficiaries from having their Second Amendment rights taken away via Obama’s gun ban. On July 18, 2015, the Los Angeles Times reported

Americans have a constitutional right to own a gun, but not to drive a car. During a conference with First Lady Michelle Obama, actress Julianne Moore indicated that she wants to change that.

During a February 2 visit to the Islamic Society of Baltimore, President Obama excused the Muslim majority for the sins of a few, but he refuses to extend that same courtesy to law-abiding gun owners throughout our land.

Kentucky state representative Kenny Imes (R-Murray) has introduced legislation that declares President Obama’s executive gun controls “null and void” within the state.

The price tag for implementing President Obama’s executive gun controls is $80 million, Attorney General Loretta Lynch declared during her January 20 testimony before the Senate Appropriations subcommittee.

Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-Maryland) suggested on Wednesday that Baltimore’s surging gun violence is at least partially due to the “gun show loophole.”

During January 20 testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said President Obama’s executive gun controls are “well-reasoned” and “lawful.”

On January 18, the Marine Corps Times criticized the “yield-no-ground attitude toward gun control” and urged veterans to support more gun laws.

During the January 17 Democratic Debate, presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders bragged about his “D-” from the NRA. He also talked about standing up to “the gun lobby” when running for Congress in 1988.

On January 14, Los Angeles Times reporter columnist George Skelton slammed President Obama for the lack of any mention of gun control in the State of the Union address (SOTU).

On January 13 The Washington Post observed that President Obama’s executive gun controls do not portend a substantial reduction in gun crime because they lack the one key element–gun confiscation.

NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre challenged President Obama to a one-hour, one-on-one debate on guns and gun rights in America.

Following President Obama’s January 5 executive gun control announcement, the White House emailed “talking points” to celebrities which they, in turn, tweeted out in support of the new controls.

A January 13 poll released by Rasmussen Reports shows less than one-third of Americans trust the federal government when it comes to guns.

Following President Obama’s reiteration of executive gun control during the January 7 town hall on CNN, radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh revealed five things Obama’s gun control will not stop.

Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio is taking a hard position against President Obama’s current gun control push, but various reports on Rubio’s time in the Florida house of representatives and U.S. Senate show a past marked by a fluctuating relationship between Rubio and gun rights.

For all those who revel in the fact that there are 374 days until President Obama finally gets the hell out of the White House, a cautionary note: Obama and his colleagues are rigging the bureaucracy so that their unique brand

Senator Richard Shelby (R-Alabama) has called Attorney General Loretta Lynch to testify before the Senate on January 28 regarding the legality of President Obama’s executive gun controls.

On January 9, determined gun show attendees outside San Francisco’s Cow Palace stood in a rain-soaked line that stretched across the parking lot to buy tickets to get inside. The show was held just four days after President Barack Obama

Over the weekend, Breitbart News spoke with Rep. Steven Palazzo (R-Miss.-4th) about his push to censure Obama over executive gun control, and Palazzo said, “If the Second Amendment goes down, all our rights go down.”

On January 8–three days after President Obama announced his executive gun controls–a poll from Rasmussen Reports showed that a clear majority of voters oppose “Obama’s decision to go it alone with several gun control initiatives.”